Now for the final update for my first completed ultimate monotype challenge, under the Gen VI standard! I really enjoyed playing through Pokemon Y with my fantastic team of Dragons! As it usually is with Dragon types, this monotype proved to not be too challenging. Each member of the Elite 4 was relatively easy to beat, and Diantha was surprisingly easy as well! I was very worried for her Gardevoir, but Dragalge survived a Psychic and dealt significant damage before fainting, and Goodra was able to finish it off with Body Slam, since Mega Gardevoir has really insubstantial defense.

update 1:
-kricketot can be found on route 202, right? just in the morning. well, it IS morning, but the game says it ISN'T, so I used a cheat to get it (hold select to find pokemon cheat btw). please tell me this is acceptable. having only bide as a damaging move is really difficult. I don't want to have to do that route again
-anyway, kricketot evolved and has hidden power... bug. seriously?

team:

kricketune (SFTY SCIZR) L10

this will be my team to beat the first gym (rock). ooh boy, this is going to be fun.

-the rock gym wasn't actually that hard. rock doesn't actually resist bug, and kricketune can learn rock smash.
-either way, badge get
-I returned and let chimchar be the one KOing most of the stuff in the galactic battle. they resist bug, but for the most part, are weak to fire.
-didn't need an HM slave because kricketune already knows rock smash!
-fought some trainers, including one who said "what's your opinion on bug pokemon?" umm dude, I'm doing a freaking MONOTYPE with them.
-I went to floroma meadow, beat one glameow, one zubat (x1/4 resists bug and fighting), one wurmple, and one silcoon, all owned by team galactic.
-slathered honey on a tree
-galactic base! once the zubat stopped using toxic, it was relatively easy.
-I entered eterna forest!
-caught two wurmple. they both evolved into cascoon.
-caught two more. again, both cascoon.
-bought more pokeballs
-caught two more. ugg, they were cascoon, too.
-finally caught two what evolved into silcoon.
-I evolved silcoon and cascoon into beautifly (nicknamed beautifree) and dustox (nicknamed mothox)
-I had them both learn gust
-I checked on my honey tree
-hiya combee (nicknamed honey)! woo!
-it took 10-15 resets to make it female, but it was worth it... or should be, at least
-I slathered honey on a tree I don't have to go back through eterna forest to get to.
-leveled it from level 5 to level 11
-kricketune learned x-scissor! I changed it's nockname from sfty scizr (safety scissor) to scissor.
-I took on the gym. in it, beautifree grew from level 13 to 14, and honey fom level 11 to 14.
badge get!

When the Pokemon Bank comes out and I transfer stuff from my Black 2 to my Y, I thought I'd do a Single Monotype Challenge on my Black 2. Thing is, I don't know which type I wanna go with. So what type do you all think I should roll with?

I'll make a sign up post when I've decided on a type....and when the PokeBank comes out (I hope its soon).

When the Pokemon Bank comes out and I transfer stuff from my Black 2 to my Y, I thought I'd do a Single Monotype Challenge on my Black 2. Thing is, I don't know which type I wanna go with. So what type do you all think I should roll with?

I'll make a sign up post when I've decided on a type....and when the PokeBank comes out (I hope its soon).

Steel and Fire are, in my opinion the best options for Black 2/White 2. Fire gives you access to Emboar, Magmortar, Arcanine, Flareon, Darmanitan, Simisear, Volcarona, Chandelure, Camerupt, and Ninetales. Steel, on the other hand, gives you the options of Lucario, Magnezone, Steelix, Excadrill, Escavalier, Aggron, Klinklang, Probopass, Ferrothorn, Skarmory, Bisharp, Metagross, and Bronzong. I really enjoy B2/W2 monotypes because you get to play through Unova with more than just Unova Dex Pokemon, and with a lot of Pokemon that aren't easily accessible in other games.

Headed over to the Safari Zone and caught Kangaskhan which took forever, also got surf from the dude.
Fly'd to Lavender Town and went south to Route 12, 13, 14 and 15 beating all trainers.
Arrived in Fuchsia City and went south to Routes 19 and 20 defeating more trainers.
Fly'd home and went south to Cinnabar Island as there is no need to run through the Seafoam Islands.
Got the key From the Pokémon Mansion and took on the gym which was easy for Kangaskhan and it's surf.
Done the Sevii Island stuff that needed to be done.
Headed to Viridian Gym, beat it to get my 8th badge.
Now of to the elite four, beat my rival at route 22, he almost killed me.
Headed through all the gates to get to victory road.
Victory road was tough but I made it through.
Arrived at the Indigo Plateau, time to take on the elite four.
After 8 defeats I finally beat them.

-started new file, chose Turtwig as starter
-went through all the mandatory tutorial stuff (it'd be nice if I could skip the how to catch a pokemon tutorial. Game, I've been doing this for 15 years, I know how to catch pokemon)
-made it to Jubilife City, got the Poketch
-Spent a good half hour trying to catch a Geodude with Sturdy in Oreburgh Gate. Finally got one.
-leveled up Geodude on the trainers I skipped
-entered Oreburgh city, went to the mine, caught an Onix
-beat Roark, got first badge. It was easy, as was expected, since you get Rock Smash before the gym and the opposing rock types couldn't do much
-returned to Jubilife, had first battle with Team Galactic Grunts

Gym Badges (1):

Current Team:
Turtwig is on the team because I need something that can use Cut, which I will need somewhat soon, and Geodude and Onix are incapable of learning Cut (and I don't think I'll run into a rock type that can learn Cut before I need it). It hasn't battled since I caught Geodude.

Been a long time so I've got a pretty big update on my poison monotype. I went in and defeated Misty pretty handily with Gengar's Thunder and Vileplume's Giga Drain.
After that I proceeded to get the Power Plant back online. I then got the radio card beat up snorlax and made my way to Pewter City.
Brock was defeated with a combination of Qwilfish's Surf, and Vileplume's Giga Drain.
After Brock I made my way to Fushia City and laid the smackdown on Janine with Venomoth's Psychic attacks.
I then made my way to Saffron City and beat down Sabrina with Crobat's Bite, Venomoth's Signal Beam and Gengar's Shadow Ball and Dark Pulse
After beating Sabrina I made my way to the Seafoam Islands and beat Blaine with Qwilfish's Surf and Rollout
On my way back I spoke to Gary to make him return to the gym and then got almost everyone in against Gary. Venomoth's Signal Beam took down Exeggutor, Rhydon was defeated by Vileplume's Giga Drain, Qwilfish Surfed Arcanine, Crobat took down Machamp with Wing Attack, and Gengar Thundered Gyarados and Pidgeot.
So now I have a lvl 58 Weezing, a lvl 58 Crobat, a lvl 58 Qwilfish, a lvl 58 Gengar, a lvl 57 Vileplume, and a lvl 57 Venomoth

2nd Update, Rock Challenge on Platinum:
-Headed towards Floroma Town. Lost 3 times to some chick with a Roselia. Realized that Sturdy doesn't act like a Focus Sash in Gen 4. Avoided her.
-Made it to Floroma Town. Kicked some Team Galactic ass there and at the Valley Windworks.
-Made it through Eterna Forest.
-Spent a few hours digging in the Underground looking for a Fossil so I could add another Pokemon to my team. Found a Skull Fossil.
-Ran all the way back to Oreburgh (you can't get a Bike until you deal with Team Galactic in Eterna; can't do that till you beat the Gym; wanted more pokes first). Got a Crainidos
-This is where things got nasty. Went to the Eterna Gym, easily beat all the Gym trainers. So I was feeling pretty good about taking on Gardenia....
-Battling Gardenia was ****ingawful. She beat me down 3 times before I decided to go get a Nosepass from Mt.Coronet. Caught one and evolved it into Probopass.
-Attempted to battle Gardenia again. Still lost to her several times. Decided to go level Probopass a bit, hope that would help.
-Went back to the Gym again. Gardenia was still handing my ass to me. Lost to her several times before a combination of an XSp.Defense, a dozen Super Potions, the AI acting dumber than normal, and a couple of lucky criticals got me the win, FINALLY.
-Man, that was just terrible. And there's still the Fighting and Water gyms to go. Hopefully those won't be so bad since by then I'll be lots stronger and be able to grind better and stuff.

Username: Lowvyr
Type: Normal
Challenge: Ultimate
Game(s): LG -> Heart Gold -> Ruby -> Platinum -> White
I don't own X/Y, nor plan to any time soon. I also don't have a 3DS, so I have to leave out X/Y, whether or not it just counts as a bunch of singles, or an ultimate, its what I have to do, sadly. Unless I can find a decent 3DS emulator, and an X/Y rom that won't crash my computer, and is in English. So for now, X/Y are out.

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I kinda forgot to post about it like a week ago, but the Christmas event is now over.

I'll be closing this thread on Feb 1st to make way for a new version of the thread following the Gen 6 standard. Any 5th gen Ultimate Monotype challenges need to be finished before then to be counted. After that the other thread will only accept people who complete games from all 6 generations into the Ultimate Champions. Gen 5 listings will remain on this thread and will be linked to in the new thread for recognition. You will be allowed to continue any existing runs in the new thread without issue. I will change a few of the standards as well since this is a new version of the thread. Previously I based it on the standards that were already in place, but as we are entering a new time I think a couple of adjustments won't be a problem, especially since I am preserving previous champs separately.

The most significant and obvious change will be that Black and White's ending point will be adjusted to defeating Ghetsis, not Alder. I always believed that the point where the credits roll should be the ending point in any game. I won't be changing Johto because there are at least gyms to fight in the post game for those games. Black and White have virtually no post game to speak of. This is fair warning about the change. DO NOT try to convince me not to make the change. The new thread will be a fresh start and will truly be mine, so I set the rules. No previous Champs work will be invalidated by the change because it was done at a different time in a different thread.

I will be updating the thread regularly throughout the month to minimize my work at the time of closing, so don't worry, everyone's progress will be shown. I look forward to seeing you all on the other side. Good luck!

Your name is still on the list of players. I never remove anyone who made progress.

Thanks!

I'll be continuing this quest. I am already in White, already finished with N and Ghetsis. Just scouring the eastern part of Unova, then it's Alder's time to fall (again). Updates will start..next week, I think. I'll just finish first some cumbersome RL assignments.

Is it ok if there's no Kalos part? I don't have a 3DS yet and I'm just playing through emulators.

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